Social: Anti-social behaviour- If parents show anti-social behaviour it may impact on the child being put into care Addictions- If children live with addicted adults they may be under a lot of stress and experience poverty. This may cause their attendance at school to drop which will impact on their achievements. Bereavement and loss- This can impact on the child's emotional and physical health as they may not know how to respond to this. Adults can also find it difficult to care for the child if they loose a family member which could result in the child going into care. Economic: Health Status- if a child has a condition, their education and home life can be affected as they may not be able to attend school as much as other children.
Ex: Lack of oxygen during birth will affect the development of the baby. Health problems - If a child suffers from health issues such as asthma, it may make them unable to take part in activities which will affect the over roll development. A child with Learning difficulties, physical disabilities or sensory deficiencies (blindness and deafness)will make it unable for them to socialize and work with other children which is a major part in helping their development, also they could be withdrawn and make them feel like they don’t belong. Explain how children and young people’s development is influenced by a range of external factors External factors also effect a child’s development Poverty and deprivation This directly affects the development of a child since poverty and deprivation means lack of proper accommodation and food. The exposure to unhealthy environment and food increase the chance of children coming in to contact with infectious diseases.
P2- Potential effects of life factors and life events on the development of an individual. Genetic Asthma-Adolescence Asthma could affect Kate physically because she might not be able to exercise as much and do activities that involve a lot of exercise because of her getting out of breath and having to take breaks to prevent an asthma attack. Asthma could affect Kate intellectually because she could miss out on important learning if she is at doctors’ appointments or if she has an asthma attack and has to leave school, and she could miss out on important information that could affect her grades in the future. Asthma could affect Kate emotionally because asthma may make Kate feel like she isn’t good enough or that she is too unfit so she could give up on exercise or anything that gets her asthma going. Asthma could affect Kate socially because she may not get to see her friends as much as she would like because of activities that involve exercise such as swimming.
• Anti-social behaviour – can have the potential to become excluded from school or become a looked after child. • Health status of self or family member –physical illness may lead to emotional problems or disturbed behaviour. • Disability – children with disabilities may find it hard to access play/leisure activities. • Parents or carers – children or young person who have role-reversal where they are looking after the parent, may feel like they have less opportunities. • Health support – those who need health support most often are least likely to use services provided.
CYPOP 17 Understand the needs of children and young people who are vulnerable and experiencing poverty and disadvantage Understand the factors that may impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people 1.1 Identify the factors that impact on outcomes and life chances for children and young people Some factors that can have an impact on children’s and young person’s outcomes and life chances are: poverty, single child syndrome or being one of a large family with lots of siblings, also learning difficulties and disability, social, economic, environmental, cultural, and additions. These factors can impair a child’s development, both physical and mental. Life is the biggest factor to be taken into consideration when looking at what affects children and young people and the impact it has on them. What they see, hear and do will mould and shape what kind of adult they will become. If they believe they are unloved, unimportant and unvalued.
The child could also feel a sad disappointed feeling because their parent won’t give them the attention a child should be receiving or a child could just be being neglected all together possibly by the parent just not caring, but I will tell you all about these things in my paragraphs below. First, Physical abuse: where a parent physically hits the child. The child will have unexplained burns, bites, bruises, broken bones, or black eyes. Also if the child screams and fusses that they don’t want to go or when the time comes to go home. A child could also feel as if any adult that approaches then could be harm to them.
Another answer for this could relate to child or young person related issues such as behavioural problems, learning difficulties, disabilities or an offense caused by a child. The reasons as to why children may need to be looked after are varied. Their parents might be severely unwell or unable to cope with
P3 There are many barriers which can effect communication and interpersonal interactions. Barriers are something which gets in the way or stops another thing from happening in this case it would stop communication which can be verbal and written. Many things can disrupt communication, for example teenagers who are having conversation with an adult like there teacher or grandparent, they tend to use a lot of slang because they use a lot of slang when around friends and adults may not understand some abbreviations. Another barrier which can disrupt communication is if a service user is blind or deaf, which means they won’t be able to receive the message which is being sent which can break done the communication. Stereotyping people can also break down communication because if you judge someone for example a teenage girl because she is pregnant so young you could ignore things she is saying because you think she knows nothing for getting pregnant at such a young age.
When parents are not involved in their child’s life enough; the child is more likely to be drawn to a bad influence involving drugs. “The most common causes of substance abuse in children and teens are a chaotic home environment, ineffective parenting and lack of parental attachment”
However short-term effects of bullying for the victim may make them feel angry which can develop inside and cause a depression state of mind. Victims can feel scared/frightened of perhaps walking down where the bullying occurs. Victims avoid going to school simply because of the constant daily bullying or threats. This on the other hand can lead for the pupil to achieve low marks not doing well academically at